Close all IE Browser windows with VBA

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Hi

I have been using

ie.Quit
Set IE = Nothing

but that only closes one browser window. however, sometimes a pop up window shows up and is still left on the desktop. just wondering if there is a command to say

'ie.closeall'

or something like that

tx
 

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Well there is always NateO's sledgehammer... But I would use this with caution, it will kill ALL internet explorer windows:

Code: 
Option Explicit
Sub IE_Sledgehammer()
    Dim objWMI As Object, objProcess As Object, objProcesses As Object
    Set objWMI = GetObject("winmgmts://.")
    Set objProcesses = objWMI.ExecQuery( _
        "SELECT * FROM Win32_Process WHERE Name = 'iexplore.exe'")
    For Each objProcess In objProcesses
        Call objProcess.Terminate
    Next
    Set objProcesses = Nothing: Set objWMI = Nothing
End Sub
 
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Nice one Oorang! All kinds of web-scraping activities get bogged down as IE takes more and more resources...an occasional loop to "IE_Slegehammer" and the problem is solved. Thank you!
 
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I see credit is due to NateO originally...good one. One thing that happens if you are looping through many times is that a program will hang as it seems unable to restart IE. I put an: Application.Wait (Now + Time Value("0:00:03")) line at the end of IE+Sledgehammer and it seems to have resolved this problem completely.
 
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The Sledgehammer kills the IE process but then my VBA code just hangs after that. How do I make it loop?

With ie
.Visible = False

For j = 2 To i

If j = 4 Then
Call IE_Sledgehammer
End If
.navigate "http://google.com/gp/product/" & ThisWorkbook.Sheets(1).Cells(j, 1)
 
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